Are you sure you have the latest version?
That issue was solved in 1.2.3, at least for me.

Yep, 1.2.3 here...

Yah now it's fine, I guess you're right, this might be a cache issue...
again, great plugin!!!

QUOTE(jon.schaffer @ Jun 30 2006, 08:37)

Sorry if this has been discussed before, I confess not having time to read the 15 pages before.
I have a small issue with the fade-out option: the pop-up window fades away but just before disappearing, it briefly pops-up again at 100%-opacity then disappear. I have the impression it didn't do it when I first install it, but I may be wrong.
Already saw this? (kill me if the answer has already been asked)

Problem solved. It was not foo_prettypop's fault but AlphaXP, a program that manage windows transparency... The idea of checking this came too late. Next time I'll be more careful reporting issues... Well, it wasn't really solved since I'll go on uxsing AlphaXP... but it's not big deal.

I have a little request for this plugin. I'd really like an overlay option, you know like foo_toaster had? It's very effective with used with that lovely glossy .png file.

ekhm pardon guys but like to the file with pretty popup is broken

could anyone share it with me?

Download from FrozenSpoon's website.

its not workin dude...

I worked for me just now. I'm not sure what issue you're having.
http://www.maroonspoon.com/foo_prettypop/

Yeah i agree with this overlay request. Mostly it overlays everything, but in the last days i thought prettypop was broken as nothing apeared.. then i noticed that it did not overlay my opera window for example..

So, overlay would be cool

yup. maroonspoon is dead to

maybe megaupload? plz i would be grateful for this file

I'd be happy to email it to you man, but maroonspoon is NOT dead. I have the site up right now. Maybe you should try doing a traceroute or make sure that your hosts file has not been hijacked.

Edit: Here's a megaupload link for Pretty Popup 1.2.3 for Foobar2000 0.9.x - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JZKNMY0N

thx maan very much

i dunno whats goin on with maroon site.. i cant get there in any way

I'm not quite sure why you couldn't get to the site -- certainly has been up since you posted (I was trying to find an alternate place to put it before I replied.. glad someone else could help).


Indeed, this is a known problem. I am not certain why it happens but is something I want to fix. Unfortuately, I really haven't been developing this plugin much lately (I've been working on other Foobar projects).

i think that adding the index file would solve that problem with website. but if it is there i dunno whatz goin' on.

prettypopup is pretty pretty

nice shyat

I have this problem as well - is there any fix to this yet? It even seems to happen to me quite soon after starting foobar, not just after 8-10 hours.

Honestly, I don't know what causes this problem - I believe that prettypopup quits working after I've been playing around with the pause/play/stop-buttons... But it could also be something completely different.

Apart from that, the program is working wonderfully

The issue I've seen, and I've seen it with EVERY program I've ever used that's supposed to "stay on top" is that it loses it's top layer somehow. I find that pretty pop-up is still working, but I can't see it because other apps are on top. Simply clicking the pop-up seems to fix it's top layer issue.

Same here. Just force prettypop to show, And quickly alt-tab to it's window (looks like a default .NET application icon) to fix the on-top issue for the moment.

sorry if this has been asked before, is there any way (other than pause/play) to show it. like hitting F10 would draw it up, for instance?

thanks.

Yes, via global hotkeys.

View/Show PrettyPopup
You can assign a keyboard shortcut (Preferences/General/Keyboard Shortcuts) to that command.

Look in View menu (Show/Hide Pretty Popup)... and also you may want to assign a keyboard shortcut for any of those

thanks a lot guys, got it configured to global F7.

thanks!

First of all, i want to congratulate the author FrozenSpoon.

One question : Is it possible to adjust the height ?
or let Pretty Popup Automatically resize it according to the text as the Width...

One suggestion : FrozenSpoon, it would be nice if you add one or two more lines...

Thank you in advance

As a workaround you can use $char(10) in your formatting code to produce a new line,
e.g. foo$char(10)bar would output:
foo
bar

Okay, this is puzzling me to no end:

I replaced 1.2.2 with 1.2.3... and the album art no longer shows!

Replace back 1.2.3 with 1.2.2... and the album art is visible again!

Any ideas what went wrong? Or must I change something?

My guess is you're using album strings like folder.jpg;album.png etc.

foo_prettypop has always been designed so that you don't have to specify extensions -- it looks for all extensions it knows how to handle. 1.2.2 would still let you place .jpg and such on the end (and ignored it), but in 1.2.3 you must not put extensions on the end. So as in the above, remove the bolded parts.

This was probably a bad design decision by me -- I did it to reduce the amount of clutter needed to specify simple filenames since wildcards weren't initially supported. But most people expect behavior similar to that of the album art panel nowadays.

Actually, Using $char(10) won't help you - the text will be in a new line, one that you can't see since the prettypop window only shows the four lines it was designed to show (and does not stretch to meet the new line).

Ahhh *lightbulb_on* okay, maybe that's the problem. I'll check it out when I get back.

Thanks, FrozenSpoon!

Thank you for the information and according to your advice, it looks like this :



Great plugin which resize automatically height and width...

That is cool! I've cranked up the font sizes on the song title, etc., and I like that, but using chr(10) adds a lot of new possibilities.

Ah, So it seems my assumption only works for the last line - if I use $char(10) there the new fifth line is nowhere to be seen

I've got a little feature request - In the old 0.8 version it was possible to have the popup fade in some seconds before the end of the previous track. Would it be possible to re-implement that?

btw - great plugin

i'm wandering in foobar menus...: i definetely cannot find WHERE i can access the control panel for foo_prettypop configuration!

i have .net 2.0 installed; plug-in shows correctly, but...

on foobar -0.9.3.1- i use also foo_audioscrobbler and foo_advancedcontrols.

please let me know

thanks in advance,

ciroops

Preferences > Display > Pretty Popup

OH MY GOD... thanks

Thank you for that great plugin!
I'm currently enjoying the configuration

Is it just me, or does this add a lot of memory usage to Foobar. I'm running the latest Foobar 0.9.4, and before adding prettypop, foobar's mem usage is at about 13k. After adding it, it jumps up to 27k. Anybody else having this problem, or is it just me? Right now I'm trying to decide if prettypop is worth the extra mem usage. I like foobar's footprint kept small.

Well it is using .NET and yes, that is using a LOT of mem. But oh well, it sure is up to you to decide if its worth the usage or not. If foobar is minimized in the tray ram usage shrinks down a bunch and since that is what prettypopup is for, that when foobar is in the tray and i can still see whats playing using the prettypopup, i really dont care in most cases.

Something to keep in mind with .NET... indeed, .NET will take up more RAM. And if the only .NET program you're running on your computer is Foobar2000 with foo_prettypop, then yeah foo_prettypop will take up a bit of RAM. But if you're running many .NET programs, then foo_prettypop actually ends up taking very little. Most people don't run many .NET programs these days. But Vista has the potential to change that.
Reguardless, people actually seem more open to the idea of .NET than when I first released this. Not sure why.

.NET has spread and evolved. Read the third post in this thread again. He will have a hard time holding his point, as he won't be able to run Paint.Net, Visual Studio and various other Programms. Also the time has proven that .NET doesn't eat people (In the beginning of 2005 few people had even heard of .Net).

Well, As frozen said, Considering vista has .NET framework v3 embedded in it, It will be less of a problem.

it means you have a lot of FREE mem, so .NET reserves more.

would it be possible to get "slide up" animations like the toaster plug-in does ?

hey, is there any way to add this popup functionality when you mouseover foobar's icon in the system tray?

I've never used toaster, but I think MSN Messenger does something similar.. That is hard to implement while keeping the standard window decorations (I don't want to abandon those). Plus, at least at the moment, I really don't plan to add many more features to foo_prettypop.

Unfortuately, I don't think that is possible.

Hmm, too bad because that is kind of a neat idea. Then again, there are always the global hotkeys, and if you have a keyboard that can take macros then it shouldn't be too hard to set up so that pretty_pop pops up with a single key press.

Upgraded to 0.9.4.1 and it seems pretty popup stop working.
Can anybody confirm this?

Still works here

Works fine for me, too.